it's that time again

the time when i ignore blogging because my apartment looks like this, i'm officially unemployed, and we are leaving thursday to move ~1200 miles to houston, tx.  bert is already traumatized.

notes from the move

can we all just take a moment to admire the sheer manliness of my boyfriend in a dirty undershirt behind the wheel of a 14' truck?  ok thank you, now back to your regularly scheduled blog post...

moving pretty much defined our weekend, which was a bit sad because... well... busy-not-100%-play-filled weekend.  but we also ended sunday with an epic feeling of accomplishment because we successfully loaded, unloaded, and drove (or, for me, rode along in) the u-haul.  this was on top of moving me to steve's (he doesn't have room for my furniture, but somehow he found room for my hoarding problem) and cleaning every inch of my townhouse.

it's always a challenge to make it through the week when you work all weekend, but on top of that, friday can't come soon enough because i'm going to see my sister at last!  hoorah!  still, can't i just quit this rat race and move to key west to write my novel?  hemingway totally made it work, right?  (well, minus the whole philandering and suicide thing).

still, we're pretty proud of ourselves (though i suppose we still have the second half of the move left to go).

counting down the minutes to san diego!

hope everyone's week flies by (unless of course you have reason to savor this random tuesday)!

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the move has begun

i hope everyone's weekend was splendid!  ours, though light on the hardcore fun-having, was excellent and well-needed.  we relaxed a lot, made a huge dent in the packing process, and sunday evening steve flew to pittsburgh for a work conference, which meant i got to lie around in the bathtub and read chekhov.  the weekend was perfect balance of lazy and productive.

you'll probably be hearing about our moving attempts for quite a while here.  one of the glories of college-town living is the way property rentals tend only to be available at random staggered intervals in mid-august through early september.  this means that, although our lease does not start until august 15th, we have about 90 steps along the way to getting our asses moved in together.  my lease is up a week from tuesday, which means i'll get to endure temporary housing at steve's place (if you enjoy fear factor, you'll probably want to come back and read how that goes for me... fortunately steve is no longer living with the nuclear physicist who pooped his own pants while stone cold sober... i wish i was kidding).

for the most part i'm going to soak up all the bathwater i possibly can until steve comes home, while bert continues to enjoy himself exploring the newly-empty corners of the townhouse.

such as this one:

happy monday everyone!

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